VICTORIA AVGGG (simultaneous strike with Julius Nepos 477 / 480)


Reference : AYC #13, RIC 3226
Weight: 4.40 grs
Metal: Gold
Diameter: ?
Scarcity: Scarce
Type:

Obverse

Reverse

D N ZENO – PERP A/G (A and V linked)

Bust of Zeno facing, cuirassed, wearing a helmet with crest and a pearl diadem. Holding a spear passing behind his head with the right hand and a decorated shield with a horseman slaying an enemy, with the left hand.

VICTOR - I - A AVGGG

Victoria (angel) standing left, holding a long latin cross decorated with jewels. Behind her on the right, a star.

Marks

M
D
COMOB
Numéro :

One coin preserved at the British Museum, Museum number 1867,0101.1006, ex: Louis, Duc de Blacas d'Aulps, link to the coin: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/C_1867-0101-1006. It is the coin illustrated in Lacam: CLXII, groupe 3 variété c, 1 (page 653).

I noted a legend break on the reverse, it is of the same type as the one noted (1) in AYC # 5 to 10. That is to say that the cross creates a space between the letters R and I. It is not the '' var B '' noted by the RIC X. These coins are noted ''var'' in my classification for this mint of Milan and designate a break where the letter I is on the other side of Victoria. What about the coins listed by the RIC X under this number 3226? Is there also this slight break visible on this copy of the British Musuem? Sources given by the RIC X: British Museum (this coin?), Dumbarton Oaks. 

These coins are struck at the same time as the coins of Julius Nepos and its recognizable with the marks M D without star.

On the reverse I noted ''Angel'' in the description. We can also say that this is Victoria but the image of the victory at that time had indeed become that of an angel symbolizing the Christian victory.